Stove-board.



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STUVE BOARD.

(Application led Aug, 17, 1900.)

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(No Model.)

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(No Model.)

L. H. soLusTH.

STOVE BOARD.

(Application led Aug. 17, 1900.)

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LARS H. SOLOSTII, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK H. MATIIISON, OF SAME PLACE.

SEEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,77 6, dated June 18, 1901.

' Application filed August I7, 1900. Serial No. 27,205. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom z3 may concern.- to support the sheet-metal topor covering as Be it known that I, LARS H. SOLOSTH, a citiit is bent over the outside of the said sheetzen of the United States, residing at Grand metal strip, so as to form a perfect and smooth 55 Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of corner when the top is formed and bent to its '5 Michigan, have invented a certain new and proper place around the edge of the board.

usefulImprovement in Stove-Boards,of which D is a modifiedformof the sheet-metal corthe following is a specification. ner formed in such a shape as to protect the My invention relates to improvements in edge and also the top of the corners of the 6o boards for use' under stoves; and its objects board where the foot of the stove rests. At

1o are, Iirst, to provide a stove-board having an c and d in Figs. l and 2 the corner is broken asbestos lining to prevent 4heating through away to show the asbestos lining B andthe the metal covering and avoid the danger of sheet-metal strip D and also the wooden botcharringthe board; second, to provideastovetom or lining. 65 board having the corners of the board rein- The principal feature of my stove-board is I5 forced to protect the board and to form a perthe sheetmet-al strip D, which is formed feet and smooth corner after the sheet-metal around the corners and rests against the outer coveringis bent over and formed to proper edge of the wooden bottom or lining of my place, and, third, to provide a stove-board stove-board to support and protect the metal 7o having the corners reinforced to protect the top or covering when forming the overlapping 2o corners on the face of the board where the corner around the edge of the board.

legs of the stove set. I attain these objects The sheet-metal coveringAis smoothly bent by the mechanism illustrated in the accomover the sheet-metal strip D, which leaves no panying drawings, in whichrough edges, but makes a perfect, even, and 75 Figure l is a pian of my stove-board with smooth corner, which cannotbe attained with z 5 one corner broken away, showing the asbesout using this metal strip or corner. In conn tos lining and the sheetmetal strip that prostructing a stove-board without this strip it tects t-he corner. Fig. 2is the same, showinga is found that the forming of the sheet-metal modified formof sheet-metal corner arranged covering over and around the corners will in- 8o to protect both the corner and the face of the variably jam or press it into the wood and 3o board. Fig. 3 is a perspective sectional view greatly disfigure the metal cover, while with on line g/ y of Fig. l. Fig. 4t is the same on my construction-that is, the insertion of the line a; on of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan of the metal strip around the corners, as shown in sheet-metal strip or corner. Fig. 6 is an ele- Figs. l and 5-the support is sufficiently re- 85 vation of the same. Fig. 7 is a bottom plan sisting to act as an anvil, as it were, over 35 of a modified form of the sheet-metal corner. which to form the thin metal corners of the Fig. S is an elevation of the same. covering perfectly smooth.

Similarletters refer to similarparts through- Having thus fully described my invention, l out the several views. what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 9o A represents the ornamental sheet-metal Letters Patent of the United States, is- 4o top or covering of my stove-board, the edges In a stove-board, a wood bottom, a sheet of which pass down and under the board to metal top, and a non-combustible lining be cover the edges of the board, asin Figs.3 and 4. tween, in combination with a metal strip re- B is an asbestos lining between the sheet.` inforcing the corner of the board and supn 95 metal covering and the wood bottom, which porting the fold of the corner of the ,sheet- 45 prevents the heat of the stove from heating metal top, substantially as and for the purthrough and injuring the wood portion of the pose set forth.

board, the carpet, or the iloor. Signed at Grand Rapids,'l\lfiehigan, August O is a double wooden lining or bottom laid 13, 1900. crosswise, so as to stiften and strengthen the LARS Il. SOIIOSTH. 5o body of the board. In presence ofl D is a sheet-metal strip formed and made M. E. IVHLiI'rNEY,

to rest against the edge of the wooden bottom ANDREW ALLGIER. 

